Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50 — Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year's TechCrunch50. Every day, the presentations just seemed to get stronger and stronger. There were so many strong contenders this year that we are awarding …

Best of Shows: Top 10 from DemoFall, TechCrunch50 — Correction at 7:30 a.m. PDT: The current name for the GPS-based ride-sharing product is Mapflow's Avego. — Note: CNET's judges for this article were Dan Farber, Josh Lowensohn, Elinor Mills, Rafe Needleman, and Daniel Terdiman.

Nontechies, This One's for You — There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't. — That old cliché is more true than ever. Red state/blue state. Pro-choice/pro-life. Mac/Windows.

TiVo control coming to BlackBerry — TiVo and Research In Motion are teaming up to enable BlackBerry users to remotely schedule recordings of TV shows on their digital video recorder, the companies announced Thursday. — Under the partnership, BlackBerry users will be able to use …

Apple details next-gen Nike+ system with GPS, wear sensors — A new filing from Apple describes a future generation Nike+ system that would be capable of more accurately monitoring athletic performance in real-time, providing feedback on wear of athletic gear, and even conveying advertisements …

EarthLink expands in a tough broadband market in Los Angeles — When most people think about EarthLink, they probably think of dial-up and how painful it was in the early days to access the Internet without throwing their computer out the window in frustration. But EarthLink hasn't been just about dial-up for a while now.

Nokia and Microsoft Exchange Blackberry Pie — The licensing deal is for Nokia handsets running Symbian S60 software, which N95-3 runs. Microsoft and Nokia both benefit from the licensing deal, which will allow S60 devices to connect to Exchange Server, but in somewhat overlapping and and in different ways.

Seth MacFarlane's AdSense Cartoons Now Available — A while ago the New York Times reported creator of US series “Family Guy” Seth MacFarlane would create some cartoons to be distributed on Google's AdSense ad network. The NYT wrote that “Advertising will be incorporated into the clips in varying ways.

Trustbusters divided on next move on Google — Go big or go small. — That's the question facing lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice investigating Google. Sources who have provided testimony to the government say a departmental debate revolves around whether antitrust regulators …